Drawing a Blank
Business cards are one-size-fits-all affairs, revealing the same information for total strangers and your best customers. Pre [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dogVyJn6MS0]-packaged, pre-designed and pre-determined. What a waste of an opportunity to connect. I’m talking about blank business cards. Marketers often
Print This Email
From the Wall Street Journal [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471904576228712797236124.html] (via Jack Baty [http://jackbaty.com/2011/04/save-a-forestprint-your-emails/]): > “Notice: It’s OK to print this email. Paper is a biodegradable, renewable, sustainable product made from trees. Growing and harvesting trees provides jobs
A Lesser Photographer Gallery Launches
It’s a founding pillar of our philosophy that Lesser Photographers photograph what they find moving, no matter what the market wants and that’s what makes it art. So while we may never be media moguls, we can still make a difference. It’s in that spirit that I
Why Journal?
Dave Caolo [http://52tiger.net/], writer/curator of nerdery, prompted me to elaborate on the advantages of journaling for writers, after my review of Day One [https://www.cjchilvers.com/journal/day-one.html]. I’ve been writing for some kind of publication for 24 years. I write 8 hours
Sleep It Off
From guilty pleasure CBS Sunday Morning, Ben Stein makes the case [http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7360204n&tag=contentMain;contentBody] for sleep, quoting University of Chicago Economist Frank Knight: > “Never waste any time you could spend sleeping.” It makes you calmer, less irritable, less fearful and
Event Photographers
I’ve only really studied and obsessed over landscape photography, so when the chance cropped up to volunteer as an Event Photographer for a charity event, I was apprehensive, but willing. I have a whole new respect now for the Event Photographer: the endless hours on your feet, the rejection
The Ultimate Accessory
By far, the most valuable tool a minimal photographer owns (besides the camera) is this modern marvel: It’s also the greatest advantage a lesser photographer has over the DSLR-laiden masses. I was reminded of this recently with a trek through a rain forest. I knew the conditions would
Why Books Still Matter
From Seth Godin’s new Domino Project [http://www.thedominoproject.com/2011/03/books-notes-tweets-and-the-change.html] : > This is why books matter. Books, used properly, immerse us in a single idea. Books bring a voice into our head, create a different brain chemistry, open doors to
Poke the Box by Seth Godin
When Seth Godin released Linchpin [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843162/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=musicjournalist&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1591843162] , it was the culmination of his life’s work, effectively encapsulating all his previous books and
Day One
A writer writes. Always. Part of the daily ritual (and it must become a ritual) is journaling. Journaling apps are a dime a dozen and most amount to little more than a crashy everything bucket from a fly-by-night company. None of them have been able to persuade me